Saudi Swissyland
While recently discussing ESC rights violations decomposed on gender, marriage and Swiss politics, I have been told that married women in Switzerland do not receive tax return slips. One might wonder if married women in this country are exempted from paying taxes. It’s true that such affirmative action might wash away ‘some’ of the incommensurate shame brought by the gender record of the Appenzell Innerrhoden canton. This marvel-of-direct-democracy-canton managed to ‘grant’ women the right to vote – only after it was ‘helped’ by a decision of the Federal Supreme Court – as early as in 1990 !!! (I cannot help noticing that the name of the mentioned Canton contains the word ‘[H]oden’ which in German means ‘testicles’… any link to the manly cantonal politics?!)
So, you ignorant wishful thinker, of course we have discrimination but not the positive sort. Sadly, at stake is the continuation of the gendered societal model which requires that a joint tax return be submitted in the name of the husband; thus, a wife has no separate existence as a taxpayer. As pointed out earlier, this is not surprising but it remains disgusting. Some food for thought for women on the point of getting married in this great Saudi Swissyland!
